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JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA 
FACTS 



PREPARED FOR THE 



JACKSONVILLE BOARD OF TRADE 



BY 
CHARLES H. SMITH. SECRETARY 



THE H. & W. B. DREW COMPANY 

JACKSONVILLE 

FLORIDA 

1906 






FEB 4 1910 




C. E. GARNER, President. 




SECOND VICE PRESIDENT 




BOARD OF GOVKUXORS. 




HOAItU OF (JOVEKXOUS. 



History of the Board. 



Organized February 7, 1884. 



The first meeting held for the purpose of forming a Board of Trade in 
Jacksonville met at the office of Col. John Q. Burbridge, January 31, 1884. 
Colonel Burbridge presided, and Henry S. Ely, Esq., acted as Secretary. 
About twenty business men attended; and, after a general discussion 
of the necessity of such an organization, a resolution was formally 
adopted declaring that *^the interests of Jacksonville demand the 
organization of a Board of Trade."' 

Messrs. Jacob Huff, James R. Challen and J. E. Hart were thereupon 
appointed a committee to prepare an address to the citizens, asking 
their co-operation in organizing the proposed Board, and Dr. A. S. 
Baldwin and Messrs. John Clark, James R. Challen, John P. Varnum 
and I^opold Furchgott were appointed a committee to draft and report 
a constitution. 

At a meeting held February 1, 1884, a constitution was reported 
and adopted. 

At a meeting held February 18, 1884, Hon. George F. Drew. ex- 
Governor of Florida, and head of the hardware firm of George F. Drew 
& Co., was chosen President of the Board; and J. E. Hart, proprietor 
of the St. Johns Elevator and Hominy Mills, James M. Schumacher, 
cashier of the First -National Bank of Florida, Morris A. Dzialynski, 
carriage, wagon and harness dealer, and John Q. Burbridge, real estate 
dealer, were elected Governors of the Board. At the same meeting the 
engrossed constitution was presented, and forty gentlemen subscribed 
their names to it as members. At this date, August, 1905, the member- 
ship is over four hundred. 



The Jacksonville Board of Trade. 



ITS OBJECTS. 



The objects of this Board of Trade are to foster, encourage, and 
develop the mercantile and manufacturing interests of Jacksonville and 



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its suburbs, to collect, preserve, and circulate useful information 
concerning the city, its trade, industries and advantages ; to study the 
workings of the great system of transportation, upon which our 
commercial and industrial prosperity so much depends, and to endeavor 
to remedy, by all proper means, the defects and abuses therein, so far 
as they injuriously affect our interests; to obtain fair and equitable 
rates of freight to and from Jacksonville, and prevent, if possible, 
discriminations in favor of other cities; to secure the abatement of 
vexatious and unjust overcharges, and insure prom])t settlements of 
damages on goods shipped; to encourage wise and needful legislation, 
and oppose the enactment of laws which might injuriously affect our 
manufacturing and commercial interests ; to agree upon commercial 
forms and regulations; to i)romote integrity, fair dealing and good faith 
among, and adjust and determine disputes and differences l)etween, 
business men; to inculcate the highest i)rinci]>les of honor, equity, and 
business morality in tlu^ community; to forward the improvement of 
our river and harbor and api)roaches thereto, the erection of needful 
public buildings, and the swift transportation and speedy and accurate 
delivery of the mails, by using our utmost influence to secure from 
the General Government that share of the National appropriations to 
which we are justly entitled; and, generally, to strive with united effort 
to increase the wealth, industries, influence, trade and population of 
the city of Jacksonville and its suburbs. 

SOCIAL FEATURES. 

The Board of Trade is not. as its name might indicate, a trading 
board where members meet daily to deal in market products or stocks 
and bonds, but is an organization for promoting the material interests 
of Jacksonville particularly, and the State generally. It has been found 
that, in addition to its regular monthly meetings, a more general interest 
is created and fostered by occasional collations and entertainments, 
which tend to promote good fellowship among its members. 

The auditorium of the building (a picture of which is shown on 
another page) is freely opened for the use of conventions and other 
public meetings (excluding political meetings). 

Until May 2, 1893, the Board of Trade was a nonincorporated body, 
and for the first nine years of its organization occupied rented rooms. 
But in 1893 the Board was duly incorporated under the laws of Florida, 
and, in conjunction Avith the Jacksonville Library Association and the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a half lot was purchased at 
the northeast corner of Main and Adams Streets, bonds were issued to 
the amount of |21,000, bearing six per cent interest, and a building was 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 11 

erected for the joint occupancy of the three organizations. This building 
was destroyed in the great fire of May 3, 1901. But in 1903 an additional 
half lot was purchased, new bonds were issued to the amount of |50,000 
(the old bonds having been paid off by the amount received from 
insurance), and a new building was erected, much larger and finer than 
the old one. of which the Board of Trade is the sole owner. 



Jacksonville— What It Is. 



Tt is a cosmopolitan city. 

It has a ifopulation of about 48,000. 

It is located on the noble St. Johns Kiver, which, with its tributaries, 
affords 1,000 miles of inland navigation. 

It has a Avater front of seven and two-tenths miles. Its area in 
square miles is seven and six-tenths. 

It is the gateway to Florida and the West Indies. 

It is further west than any other Atlantic port. 

Tt is nearer than any port north of Charleston to St. Louis and 
the Northwest. 

It is within a short distance of the great coal and iron regions of 
Alabama. 

. It has direct communication with every important city in the 
United States via ten railway systems. 

It has direct ocean steamship communication with Boston, New 
York, I'hiladelphia and Baltimore. 

It is better located than any city farther north for the trade with 
the eastern coast of South America. 

It has become one of the principal naval stores marts of the country. 

It has a floating dock of 4,200 tons capacity (the largest private 
dock south of Newport News, Va.), also two large ship yards. 

It is the business metropolis of Florida. 

Tt has seven banks of Avhich the combined caj^ital and suri)lus is 
$2,550,000. 

It has twenty-eight Avholesale groceries. 

It has Avholesale and retail houses in every line of merchandise. 

It has about two hundred factories, great and small. 

It has ten great saw and planing mills, and sash, door and blind 
factories. 

The American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company has a station 
here. 



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The Snntlun'u Bell Telephone has about two thousand subscribers, 
and has long-distance telephone service to New York and other Northern 
cities. 

Its annual trade is about |1(I0,()0(),0()0. 

It is a desirable place of residence, its mortality averaging ten in 
one thousand — the lowest in the United States. 

It has a delightful climate, with a mean temi)erature of seventy 
degrees, and is cooler in summer than most Northern cities. 

It has churches of all denominations. 

It has good schools and a fine business college. 

It has an opera house and other places of amusement. 

It has a number of fine buildings devoted to social and charitable 
purposes, viz. : Seminole Clubhouse, Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks, Wheelmen's Club. Woman's Club, Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows 
Hall, Daniel Memorial Ori)lianage, Home for Aged Women, St. Lukes 
Hospital, St. Marys Home, Confederate Veterans Home, DeSoto 
Sanatorium. 

It has a fine i»ublic library (Carnegie's). 

It will shortly have an ui»-to-date Young Men's Christian Association 
Building. 

It has twenty miles of trolley lines; over ten miles of brick pave- 
ments; about fourteen miles of shell street and drives already constructed 
and provided for by ordinance, and several beautiful parks. 

It has gas and electric light plants. 

It has artesian wells yielding 5,000,000 gallons of pure water daily. 

It has an excellent sanitary and drainage system. 

It has an efficient fire department, and a fire-ahirm telegraph. 

It has excellent daily and Aveekly newspapers and monthly magazines. 

It has twenty feet de])th of Avater in the St. Johns River between 
Jacksonville and the ocean, with good i)rospects of having twenty-four 
feet in the immediate future. 

It is within thirty minutes' ride of one of the finest ocean beaches 
in America. 

It has the largest and most influential Board of Trade in the South. 

On May 3, 1901, over 2,600 buildings in the principal business and 
residence part of the city were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of 
about $15,000,000. 

At this date ( August, 1905) over 5,000 buildings have been or are 
being rebuilt, the value of which exceeds |30.000,000. 

Jacksonville prospers by the development of the State of Florida. 




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The Opinion of Hon. Leslie iVI. Sinaw, Secretary of 
United States Treasury. 



"What do I think of Jacksonville? I think that it is one of the 
best towng ^ I have ev er^visitfid. It is a gem for bnsiness, and from what 
1 learn of the State, both from the people here and from what comes 
to me in an official way, it ivS one of the most prosperous States in the 
Union. 

''I greatly enjoyed my meeting with the Jacksonville Board of Trade. 
I learned one thing: That it is one of the most active bodies that I 
ever met, and I was gratified to know that there was a great deal of 
interest in the discussions which arose during the reception. I was glad 
to see the spirit of business ])redominated over politics. It speaks well 
for Jacksonville and the State. 

''To say that I have enjoyed my visit to Jacksonville would be putting 
it mildly. I have had a most enjoyable time. I have met bankers and 
other business men who have enthused me with their business methods 
and their great enterprise. The bankers whom I have met are among 
the leading business men of the South, and I find that they are 
enthusiastic and alive to the business interests of their States. Of course 
if I had selected the time to come to Florida I would have named 
January instead of June, but I have really found the climate here 
delightful for all that. 

''I do not saj' it because I am in this part of the country, but I 
have always responded when there came a request for money to place 
in the banks of the South. I have admired the manner in which the 
business men of the South have labored for the business interests of 
their sections, and it has certainly been a pleasure to me to have met 
so many of them while on this trip." 




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Jacksonville's Splendid Location for Trade. 



The fact that Jacksonville is farther west than any other Atlantic 
]»()rt in the world is Avorthy of consideration. The coast line tnrns 
slightly west of south from New York to Cape Hatteras, to the mouth 
of the St. Johns. On account of this trend of the ocean to the Avestward 
Southern ports are nearer to the geographical center of the country than 
are the ports of the North. 

Jacksonville is nearer than any port north of Charleston to St. Louis, 
Kansas City and all parts of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota 
and Montana, and the States west and south of them, and is nearer to 
them than is Charleston or Savannah. Coming farther south, Jacksonville 
is the nearest Atlantic port. 

This is true of distance in a direct line. Practically the same is 
true of distances by direct rail. The railroad map is constantly being 
changed by the addition of new lines. The distance in a straight line 
never changes, and it is the ultimate possibility of railroad development. 

Another natural advantage that Jacksonville has in transportation 
from the interior is found in the fact that the lines to this city come 
south of the mountains. The most direct line to the geographical center 
of the country would pass through mountains only near Birmingham, 
where they are not high as farther to the north and west. Jacksonville 
can be reached without the necessity of such heavy grades as are necessary 
farther north, and as a result engines can pull heavA' trains, thus making 
a sav^^g in reaching Jacksonville that could not be made in reaching 
the coast farther north. 

All that is needed to make this city a great shipping point — a point 
from which the business of the country can be more economically handled 
than it is handled now — is deeper water. An appropriation to secure 
a de])th of water at Jacksonville sufficient to float the largest ships in 
the world would, of course, benefit this place more than any other, but 
its benefits would extend to a greater or less extent across the country, 
and to some extent would be felt by producers a thousand miles distant. 
Harbor improvement is never purely local in its benefits. The cities of 
the interior get their share. This muchTias been said without special 
reference to the South American trade. Jacksonville is better located 
than any other city farther north for the trade with the eastern coast 
of South America — a trade that our producers are making- effort to gain. 
Nothing will help so much to gain it as deep water through ports on 
the most direct route. It is esDeciallv true that so far as the South 



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American trade is coiiceriied eveiy American who produces for export 
is interested in the improvement of the extreme southern harbors of the 
United States. 

The recent appropriation by Congress of |1,300,000 for the improve- 
ment of the St. Johns insures ns twenty-four feet of water from 
Jaclvsonville to the ocean as soon as the work can be accomplished for 
which the appropriation was made. 

NAVAL STORES. 

The growth and development of the naval stores business is interest- 
ing and worthy of special notice. Manufacturers and exporters of these 
products of the yellow pine forests first began at Norfolk, Virginia. As 
the forests were denuded in that section, Wilmington, North Carolina, 
became an important shipping port ; and for years the " Old North 
State " was considered the home of tar, pitch and turpentine. Charleston, 
South Carolina, followed Wilmington, and was succeeded by Savannah, 
Georgia, through, which port large quantities of naval stores are still 
handled, but the business, according to the recent report of the Savannah 
Board of Trade, is gradually declining, and now Jacksonville, Florida, 
is coming rapidly to the front. The reckless and wasteful methods that 
have heretofore prevailed among the operators have '^ killed the goose 
that laid the golden egg " in most of the States named. The Herty-cup 
system, which is now being largely adopted, will prolong the life of the 
trees indefinitely, and transform a transient into a permanent business 
in Florida. 




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Banking Figures Show City's Growth. 



The remarkable growth of Jacksonville is best demonstrated by 
the increase in the figures connected with the Clearinghouse which is 
conducted at the Commercial Bank. 

Figures prom August 1, 1903, to August 1, 1904. 

August I 2,325,786.08 

September 2,050,400.45 

October 3,329,548.69 

November 2,971,665.31 

December 3,265,912.45 

January 3,354,540.94 

February 3,465,866.59 

March '. : 3,815,615.94 

April 3,716,545.56 

May 3,652,010.78 

June 3,476,623.50 

.Julv 3,321,561.15 



I 39.352.098.44 

Figures from August 1, 1904, to August 1, 191)5. 

August I 3,381,098.77 

September 3,208,433.66 

October 3,620,976.63 

November 3,881,629.12 

December 4,310,546.35 

Januarv 5,041,683.16 

February 4,423,910.12 

March 5,507,996.71 

April 4,652,102.80 

May 5,537,340.13 

Jum^ 4,712,518.95 

Julv 4,696,278.69 



$ 52,974,529.09 
39,352,098.44 



Increase over the previous year I 13,622,430.65 



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Jacksonville as an Important Food Market. 



TwEXTY-NixE Wholesale Grocery Houses. Which is More Than 

New Orleans (With Ten Times the Population) 

AND Savannah Combined. 



Jacksonville luis hveuty-nine wholesale grocer v houses doing an 
annual business of more than |12.000,000. This is more than Xew^ 
Orleans has, Avhich is a city of ten times the population. It is more 
than Wilmington, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, and 
Savannah, Georgia, combined, have. The wholesale business of New 
Orleans, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah has been the gradual 
development of more t han one hundred ye ars. The wholesale business of 
Jacksonville has been a development of le ss than twentv vetu 's. 

The firm of C. B. Rogers & Co. started business in Jacksonville 
in 1886. At that time there were two wholesale grocery houses in 
Jacksonville, Wightman & Christopher, and Tysen & Smith. At that 
time the annual wholesale business done in eTacksonville was exceedingly 
small. The large wholesale grocery establishments of Charleston, 
Savannah, New Orleans and Mobile controlled the Florida business. 
With the advent of the C. B. Rogers Co., the wholesale business of 
Jacksonville received an impetus that has pushed it up to its present 
magnificent proportions. New concerns entered the field each year and 
the development was gradual until about three years ago. 

The foundation of the naval stores business in Jacksonville about 
four years ago, brought about by the establishment of the Florida Naval 
Stores Company and the Mutual Naval Stores Company, had a remarkable 
efifect on the wholesale grocery business. Almost coincident with the 
establishment of these companies, and the consequent development of 
the naval stores industries of Florida, was the establishment of many 
wholesale groceiy houses. When the Consolidated Naval Stores Company 
was formed by a merger of the Florida Naval Stores Company, the Mutual 
Naval Stores Company and naval stores companies of Savannah, 
Brunswick and Pensacola, renewed activity in the wholesale grocery 
business was begun. A movement of large and prosperous concerns 
from Brunswick and Savannah to Jacksonville, which began soon after 
the formation of the first naval stores companies in this city, rapidly 
materialized into the present remarkable showing. One of the most 



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iHi])()rtai]t fiictoi-s in the (Ievel<)])ineiit of this business in Jacksonville 
is the great advantage enjoyed by this point in cheapness and facility 
in making shipments. Jacksonville's importance as a terminus of the 
great Southern railroad systems of the country and as a seaport gives 
the business houses located here peculiar advantages in the way of 
freight rates from the markets, and its position as the gateway to Florida 
places it advantageously as a distributing point for the larger part of 
Florida and a considerable part of Southern Georgia and Alabama. 

The result of this development of the wholesale grocery business 
of Jacksonville has been the wresting of the control of Florida business 
from other cities and placing it almost entirely in the hands of Jack- 
sonville merdiants. That all of these wholesale Itusiuess houses of 
Jacksonville are enjojing prosperity and are annually increasing their 
business is an evidence of the healthy business condition of all Florida. 
Traveling salesmen representing the large manufacturers of food products 
in the country come to Jacksonville many times a year. They are most 
reliable barometers of business conditions. They report that Jacksonville 
merchants are large buyers and that they discount their bills, thus 
making them among the best customers that they have in the country. 

This development of the wholesale business in Jacksonville has 
brought along with it the development of another branch of business. 
Manufacturers of food ]U'oducts are now represented in this city by 
brokers, and the number of brokers and the amount of business done 
by them has kept pace with the progress of the wholesale grocery 
establishments. 

This development is by no means a past develoi)nient. It is going 
on now. ?sew business houses of this class are being established almost 
every nionlli. For the year 1904 two concerns with large capital have 
commenced business in Jacksonville, and the develoi)ment bids fair to 
continue throughout the year as it has begun. 



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Jacksonville as a Place of Residence. 



There is itiobably no cit}' in the United States that offeis so many 
attractions as a ]>laee of residence as does the city of Jacksonville. 
It is sitnated on the banks of the noble St. Johns River, a river which 
extends almost the entire length of the State, and which affords ample 
opportnnities to sportsmen, yachtsmen and fishermen to indulge in their 
favorite pastimes. It is within forty minutes by rail of the Atlantic 
Ocean and one of the finest seaside resort hotels in America. Standing 
upon high ground and well drained by creeks that flow through it, and 
by the great river sweeping round it, the city enjoys advantages of 
fortunate sanitary topography, and its natural healthiness has been 
improved by perfect drainage, sewerage and other necessary sanitation. 
It has a splendid supply of almost chenii cally pure Avat er. obtained 
from artesian wells which are smik tothe depth of about one thousand 
feet. The climatic conditions are as near perfect for pleasurable existence 
as can be found in America. It is not only a very attractive winter 
resort, but even the summers are not as uncomfortable as in most 
Northern cities, for it is fanned by delightful breezes from the Atlantic 
Ocean. The popul ation is cosmopolit an — probably as much so as any 
city of its size in the United States — and strangers who come here to 
make this their home always find a generous and hearty welcome. The 
school advantages are excellent, and are being rapidly improved. There 
are churches of all denominations, and the very best amusements are 
afforded the people of the city. Jacksonville being on the Southern 
circuit, the best attractions that visit the largest cities of the South 
come to Jacksonville. Ttolley lines run through all parts of the city 
and into the suburbs, and there are a number of fine parks and pleasure 
resorts. There are miles of paved streets and beautiful shell drives. The 
mortality reports show that Jacksonville is one of the healthiest cities 
in this country. 

Since the great fire of May, 1901, not only have fine business blocks 
been erected, but many costly and elegant residences, and in the suburbs, 
which were not touched by the fire, there are as handsome residences 
as can be found in any city of its size. There are also numerous 
dwellings of more modest type, which are the homes of traders and 
mechanics, of which they themselves are the owners. It may be imagined 
that because Jacksonville is in the extreme South that it is an isolated 
city, but with nine railroads extending to all portions of the country, 



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and elegant Clyde steaiii.sliips luuiiiug triweekly to Xew York and 
Boston, and not only telegraphic communications with all parts of the 
Avorld, but with long-distance telephone, it is in touch with all the great 
business centers of the country. 

Parties who desire to move South in order to avoid the rigorous 
winters of the North, or those who are seeking a healthy resort with ideal 
climatic conditions and social advantages, certainly should visit this 
citv to investigate its advantages before locating elsewhere. 



Temperature and Precipitation Data for 33 Years at Jacksonville, Florida, 
as compiled by U. S. "Weather Bureau Officials. 



MONTHS 



Mean 


Average 
Rainfall 


55 


3.0 


58 


3.4 


63 


3.5 


68 


2.9 


75 


4.0 


80 


5.5 


82 


6.2 


82 


6.2 


78 


8.2 


71 


5.2 


63 


2.4 


56 


3.1 



January 

February 

March 

April 

May 

June 

July 

August 

September 

October 

November 

December 




*Occured January, 1886. 

•i-Occured February, 1899. This was the coldest weather in (50 yeai-t 

iOccured December, 1894. 



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To Investors. 

The financial condition of the city of Jacksonville is very satisfac- 
tory. The total indebtedness of the city is represented by bonds to 
the amount of .fl.MOS.OOO, payable May 15. 1024, with interest paid 
«emi-annnal]y at five per cent per annum. The city has no floating 
indebtedness. 

Four hundred thousand dollars of the bonded indebtedness Avas 
issued November 15, 1901, of the Waterworks and Electric Plant, public 
buildings and street pavements, and to i>ay all the outstanding- 
indebtedness not secured by bonds. 

The city of Jacksonville has never defaulted in the payment of any 
-of its bonds, and has pledged, to secure its bonded indebtedness, the 
Waterworks and Electric Plants owned by the city of Jacksonville. The 
city owns probably asgooda_vvaterworks ]ilant as is owned by any 
city of its size in the country, and derives its water supply from artes ian 
wells, driven about ten hu ndred feet de ep, which furnish an abundant 
flow of pure water. The city furnishes to its residents a supply of artesian 
water at twe^lv e^ dollars per annum for each house, allowing for that 
«um an average of three hun dred gallons per day by the year. 

The city also oavus an electric plant thoroughly up to-date in all 
respects, and furnishes electricity to all its residents at the rate of seven 
cents per thousand Avatts for incandescent lights, and seA'en dollars and 
flfty cents per month for tAA'O-thousand candle-poAver arc lights. 

There is no other city in the country as_weIL and as clieaj)lvjiglvted. 
A family of ordinary size can light for Iavo dollars per month if the 
lights are economically used, and ninety-flAe per cent of the residences 
in this city are thus lighted. The profit out of commercial lighting 
pays all the cost of operating the plant, and leaves a handsome surplus. 

The profits of the Avater and electric plants had, for fome years 
prior to the great fire of May 3. 1901, paid the entire interest on bonded 
indebtedness of the city, and, after paying all expenses of operation, left 
a surplus eA'ery year for extension of those plants, and Avill, beyond 
doubt, be able to continue to pay hereafter the entire interest on the 
bonded debt, Avith a continually and rapidly increasing surplus, so that 
the bonded indebtedness of the city can not properly be said to be a 
burden upon taxable property of the city. 

The assessed valuation of the property Avithin the city is : 

Real estate -f 13,451,760 

Personal 3,835,120 

Total I 17,289,880 



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Upon whicli the tax ]evy is sixteen and two-tenths niills on the 
dollar, excepting upon that part of the ])i<)iiei-ty which lies in the out- 
skirts of the city beyond reach of tire hydrants, n]»on which the tax 
levy is twelve and one-half mills only. 

It is considered that the assessment of real estate is two-thirds 
the salable value of the property, but on personal property the assessment 
is very much less, and it is safe to say that the city taxation does not 
equal one cent on the dollar on the salable value of the i>roperty within 
the citv. 



Jacksonville's Progress. 



Dnriny the {)ast twelve months eighty-live com})anies have l)een 
chartered, with an aggregate cai)ital of |11,217,000. 

The following is a list of charters recorded by the clerk of the 
circuit court: 

1 company, the capital of which is '? l.^.lo.OOO 

4 companies capitalized at |1,000.0()0 each 4,(Mi(),(100 

4 companies capitalized at |oOO,()()0 each 2.0()0.00(> 

1 comjiany ( a]titalized at :')<)( 1.(100 

2 companies cai)italized at .f250,000 each 500,000 

1 company cajntalized at 200,000 

1 company capitalized at 12."). 000 

15 comjianies cai»italized at $100,000 each 1,000,000 

1 company ca{)italized at 75,000 

1 company capitalized at (50,000 

11 companies capitalized at $50,000 each 550,000 

1 company cai»italized at 45,000^ 

1 company capitalized at 35,000 

3 companies capitalized at |30,000 each !»0,000' 

8 com])anies capitalized at |25,000 each 200.000 

30 comiianies each capitalized at from .fl,000 to .|20.000 2,870,000 



85 111.217,000 

There are other projects c(>ntenii)]ated and under way, involving an 
expenditure of millions more. 




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Spirit of the South at Jacksonville. 



Fire-Swept Three Years Ago — Restored and Progressive To-Day. 

[Editorial Correspondence Manufacturers' Record.] 

Jacksonville. Fla., May 23, 1904. 

On May 3, 1901, Jacksonville was swept by fire, which started at 
midday. At 6 o'clock nothing was left standing in an area of more than 
fonr hundred acres. More than 2, GOO houses were burned, a very large 
proportion of them of the better class of residences, as well as business 
houses, and that night 14,000 people, out of a total of about 30,000, were 
homeless. The aggregate loss was about |16, 000.000, with insurance of 
IG.OOO.OOO, leaving a net loss of about |10,000.000. This means a gross 
loss of |500 for every man, woman and child, white and black, in the 
city, or a net loss per capita over insurance of above |300. The magni- 
tude of this can be appreciated when compared with the extent of 
Baltimore's fire. Had the loss in Baltimore been as great in proportion 
to population as in Jacksonville, the gross loss would have been over 
1250,000,000, the net loss beyond insurance over |150,000,000, and 
250,000, or nearly one-half of its population, would have been homeless. 
It was such a situation as this that Jacksonville faced on the night 
of May 3, 1901. How did it meet the emergency? 

The morning after the fire Jacksonville faced a situation before 
which the stoutest heart might well have been appalled; for. unlike the 
Baltimore fire, Avhich was confined to the business district, the Jackson- 
ville fire swept away residences and business houses alike. Three years 
have passed and, except for the destruction of the beautiful shade trees 
which lined the streets of the cit}", it is a far greater and far more 
attractive city than before the fire. The old houses have been replaced 
by new and modern structures. Where 2,000 houses then stood there 
are now considerably over 3,000, costing nearly |25,000,000. Business 
of every kind has expanded, men have taken broader views of Jacksonville 
and its future and of the whole State, and during my stay here I have 
not been able to find a single pessimist. Optimism rules everywhere. 
Stir, activity and life are in the air. In the hotels, in the clubs, every- 
where, men are talking of the prosperity of the State, of the great 
development in diversified agriculture, of the phenominal profits which 
are being made in early vegetables — profits surpassing the stories told 
about the fortunes made in fruit-growing in California. When the great 
freeze practically destroyed the orange industry of the State it was 



38 THE JACK^OyVILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 

siil»]i(tsed that Florida had ii-ceived a bh)\v t'loin wliich it iniiiht nevor 
fully recover. On the contrary, it is today regarded by everyone in the 
State, except the immediate losers by the freeze, as a great blessing. 
It turned the attention of the ])eople from oranges, on which all interest 
was being centered and on Avhich the prosjierity of the State was then 
staked, to diversified farming, to pinea])itles, tomatoes, potatoes, straw- 
berri(^s, celery, and many other things which are yielding profits that 
sometime.'^ read almost like a fairy tale, but which are proven by 
bank accounts. ^loreover. Avith a better understanding of the orange 
business, and with a knowledge of the fact that once in a long period 
there may come another destructive freeze, the growers have adopted 
better methods and are better able to i)rotect tluMr trees should it ever 
come. For the first few years after the freeze this industry languished, but 
gradually men of energy took hold of it again, and orange-growing 
promises to ]>rove as great in extent and far more profitable than it 
was before — the estimate of some being that this year's crop will reach 
3,000,000 boxes. It is by no means im})robable that below the frost 
line there will be developed an orange industry rivaling that of Cali- 
fornia, Avhere 9,000,000 boxes are now raised. But the entire orange 
business in Florida might be destroyed, and still the State would become 
one of the most prosperous in the Union. With its diversity of soil, 
its great lumber and turpentine interests, its jihosphate business, its 
charm of climate for winter tourists, it has. outside of the orange 
business, sources of wealth sufficient to bring an abundant harvest of 
prosperity. It is just beginning its real develoinuent, just beginning to 
command the attention of the outside world, and its own jieople are 
just beginning to realize the greatness of their opjiortunities. 

But coming back to Jacksonville. The spirit of the town is illus- 
trated in the Board of Trade, an organization intended not for trading 
purposes, but which has been formed for the exclusive object of the 
general advancement of the city. The annual dues are .f20.00. and in 
a town of thirty-five thousand people it has about four hundred 
members. After the fire it was decided to erect a handsome Board of 
Trade building at a cost of |50,000, and bonds for this amount were 
promptly taken by the members. The new building is a very attractive 
structure, with a main hall intended for special meetings, with a capacity 
for seating five hundred to six hundred peojile. It is proposed to enlist 
the co-operation of the good women of the city by giving in this room 
three or four i)ublic meetings or receptions a year, to which the women 
will be welcomed. At the opening of the Board of Trade building on 
May 18, probably one-half of the audience were ladies. Rents from 
portions of the building not needed for the purposes of the Board i)ay 
the interest on the bonds, taxes, etc., and leave some surplus towards 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 39 

the general work of tlie organization. The spirit of tliis body — live, 
active, energetic, ahvays doing things for the advancement of the city — ■ 
is admirably typical of the s{)irit of Jacksonville, from which Baltimore 
especially, and all other cities, could learn some valuable lessons. 
Jacksonville is the best illustration which I have seen of vitrified brick 
paving. Broadly speaking, the entire city is splendidly paved with 
vitrified brick, and it is the cleanest city of which I know. Its streets 
look like thej had been scoured every night. This feature especially 
impressed itself upon me by reason of having just left the dust and dirt 
and debris of Baltimore, where municipal incompetency has so signally 
failed in making ])rogress towards cleaning up the city after the fire. 

Nowhere in the country have I heard more optimistic talk nor seen 
greater evidences of rapidly increasing prosjjerity than in Jacksonville, 
and people from all jjarts of the State tell the same story of conditions 
throughout all Florida. The business men are alert and energetic, as 
illustrated in the case of one concern, and that was but typical of many. 
A big hardware house in ten days after the fire had built a new house 
one hundred feet square and stocked it Avith $80,000 worth of hardware, 
all of which had in the meantime been brought from the North and West. 
That is a s])irit of hustle and ''go'' which is; doing things here, and 
which did things at the time of the fire. The hotels are crowded and 
are constantly turning away people, even at this season of the year, 
and additional hotel accommodations are badly needed. The whole place 
reminds one very strongh' of the energy and the spirit of co-operation 
which, away back in the early eighties, gave Atlanta such a start that 
it has never since had time to slack up. 

With the deepening of the bar at the mouth of tlie St. Johns (and 
the St. Johns River, a mile and a half wide at Jacksonville, is a stream 
which for magnitude and beauty has never been appreciated), now under 
way. t^venty-four feet have already been obtained, though this was not 
at low water, and it is not ottlcially announced by the army engineers, 
Jacksonville ought to become one of the leading ports of the Atlantic 
coast. The St. Johns River, running up hill as it doe», or from south 
to north, is really a magnificent stream, and when once ample depth 
has been secured across the bar Jacksonville will have a harbor surpassed 
by few places. At this point the river makes a bend, which gives a 
frontage here of many miles. The Atlantic Coast Line owns as an 
inheritance from the Plant System an unusually- attractive body of land 
with a very long water frontage covering some hundreds of acres at a 
point where the river is fulh' a mile and a half wide, judging not by 
actual measurement, but by the eye. Here it is proposed to spend 
about $1,500,000 in developing terminals, piers and wharfs for lumber 
and naval stores, phosphate, etc., with the most modern facilities for 



40 THE JACKSONVILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 

handling such products, the intention being to make this an ocean outlet 
for a vast traffic, drawing to this port cotton, lumber, turpentine, and 
other freight from the whole wide stretch of territory reached by the 
Coast Line and its connections. With a harbor far greater than has 
been appreciated by the business world (in fact, a harbor which ought 
to guarantee all needed government aid to secure any depth desired 
in the river, since there is ample depth across the bar) Jacksonville 
ought rapidly to take rank as an export city of commanding importance. 
Certainly if untiring energy, if hearty, whole-souled co-operation, if 
broad views of broad-minded men of energy and push account for any- 
thing in this world, then Jacksonville may safely be ranked as among 

R. H. E. 



AGeographical Description of Florida. 



Tt is essential to those contemplating the establishment of homes 
in a new country, that they have a fair idea of the geography of the 
section in which they are interested; so, considering the position of 
Florida, and its unusual conformation, a knowledge of its geography 
becomes interesting as well as necessary. Florida is the most southerly 
State in the United States, and lies between 241/0 degrees and 31 degrees 
north latitude, and between 80 degrees and 8S degrees west longitude 
from Greenwich. The total area of the State is put down at 59,268 
square miles, or 37,931,520 acres; of this area, according to the latest 
United States census, the total land surface is 54.240 square miles; the 
total area covered by water, composed of lakes, rivers and ponds, is 
5,028 square miles. The length of the State from its northern boundary 
to the south end of the peninsula is something over four hundred miles, 
the average width of the peninsula is about one hundred miles, and that 
portion of the State lying along ai.d between the States of Georgia 
and Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico averages about sixty miles in 
width, though much narrower in some places. 

From its geographical position, being in the same latitude as the 
northern half of Mexico and southern China, it is natural to suppose 
that the climate is hot, but its comparative degree of heat is not 
accurately indicated by its latitude, because the temperatures that might 
be expected from its geographical position are controlled in gi'eat 
measure by its; peculiar shape, bringing the whole surface in close 
proximity to the ocean currents which influence to a great degree its 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 41 

entire climatic couditious. The narrowness of tlie State and its conse- 
quent exposure to tlie fructifying influence of the balmy ocean winds 
produces a pleasantness and salubrity of climate, and a ])ower of vegeta- 
tive production truly wonderful. 

The surface of the State, taken as a whole, is comparitively level ; 
the most level portion being in the east and southern sections of the 
State, though there are numerous points in the parts just mentioned 
where considerable areas of country are from one hundred to two hundred 
and fifty feet above sea level ; in the northern, north central and western 
portions of the State the greater portion of the country is quite hilly, 
many points having an altitude of two hundred to three hundred feet 
above tide water. 

Of the geographical features most imijortant the most noticeable 
is the great length of coast line, almost 1,200 miles, which is also remark- 
able for the great numbers of bays, making the entire coast accessible, 
and containing a number of the finest harbors in the United States. 
Into these bays flow numerous streams, many of them navigable, plied 
by numerous lines of steamboats, that supply facilities for commercial 
intercourse with interior points. A number of these rivers flow entirely 
across the State (the St. Johns River runs almost the entire length, 
rising far to the south and flowing due north), and in almost every case 
have at their mouths safe harbor for vessels in coasting trade, as well 
as for vessels of large draught. The principal harbors on the Gulf Coast 
are Pensacola, Tampa, Charlotte Harbor, Key West and Carrabelle, and 
on the Atlantic Coast, Fernandina, Jacksonville and Miami. 

Throughout the history of the world experience has invariably shown 
those countries blessed with water facilities for travel, transportation 
and commerce, are the ones that accumulated the greatest wealth, were 
I)rosperous and progressive. Florida has these facilities to a greater 
extent than any other state, for practically all of her territory is in close 
touch with the commerce of the ocean, through her harbors, wiiere her 
products may be transported to other climes or exchanged for wares 
from other parts of the world. 



Florida's Extent. 

The Everglades State is Larger Thax Most Folks Imagine. 



But few people have any conception of Florida's extent. Jackson- 
ville is about as far north of Miami as she is south of Charlotte. North 
Carolina; about as far north of Key West as she is south of Danville. 



42 THE JACKliONYILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 

Mr<>iiii;i. Jonorance of the extent of Florida leads to many anmsiuo- 
mistakes. We soiiietiiiies hear the railroads of the State charged with 
inakiug poor time. Why, it takes over twenty-four hours to go from 
Pensacola to Miami. The man who makes this remark would think he 
was traveling on a flier if he made the trip from Pensacola to Chicago 
in the same length of time it would take him to go to Miami. But 
there is very little difference in the distance. A land tri]) from one 
end of Florida to the other is as long as from the lakes to the gulf. 
A citizen of Elaine who makes up his mind to come south may get on 
the cars and pass through ^Nlaine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 
Connecticut, New York, Xew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Marvland, 
the District of Columbia and far into A^irginia. When he has done this 
he has taken no longer ride than he could have taken by an e(]ually 
direct line from one Florida town to another, and there are some men 
green enough to think they are making poor time when they find it 
takes them longer to go from Pensacola to Miami than from the eastern 
to the western side of Maine. Of course the old stagers do not make 
these amusing mistakes. They have a pretty clear conception of the 
geography of Florida. There are many, however, who come on their 
first visit with very hazv ideas of the State. 



Climate. 



''Climate," says Humboldt, "taken in its general sens(\ in:licates 
all the changes in the atmosphere that sensibly atlect our organs, as 
temperature, humidit}-, fluctuation of barometer, jircssure. quietness 
of the atmosphere, winds direction, force and acfion, purity of the 
atmosphere and its adnuxture with vapor, or noxious exhalations of 
gaseous matter, transparency and clearness of sky in its relations to 
radiation of heat, to the organic development of })lants, etc., also with 
reference to its influence on the feelings and mental condition of mankind." 

In relation to these manifold elements of climate, Florida occupies 
a most favorable position, for the modifying influences in o])eration 
have produced a climate that for equability has few if any equals and 
no superior. As regards temperature, continued observations in various 
parts of the State show that it is not excessive in either extreme during 
the entire year, the range between winter and summer temperature being 
only about 2(1 degrees. The annual mean is about 70 degrees, that of spring 
about 71 degrees; summer, 80 degrees; autumn, 71 degrees; winter, 60 
degrees. 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. ' 43 



Health of the State. 



While it is not claimed for Florida that it contains the fonntain 
of perpetual youth vainly sought for by Ponce de Leon, yet it compares 
favorably with most of the States in the Union, as is sho\yn bv the 
following comparative death rate: Maine, one in 315; Massachusetts, 
one in 254; New York, one in 473; Pennsylvania, one in 462; Illinois, 
_oneJn379; Virginia, one in 557; Minnesota, one in 755; Flo rida "o^ in 
J^^447. The records also show that the ratio of deaths to the number 
of cases of remittent fever is much less in Florida than in any other 
section of the United States. In the central section of the United States 
the proportion is one death to 36 cases, in Northern section, one to 52; 
in the Southern, one to 54; in Texas, one to 78; in California, one to 
every 122; in New Mexico, one to each 148; while in Florida it is only 
one out of every 287. And the average annual mortality for the whole 
State is less than three per cent. 

Thus it can be seen that Florida can claim absolute supremacy over 
all competitors. 



Prices of Lands. 



The sale and disposal of all school and seminary lands is vested 
in the State Board of Education. The sale and disposition of all internal 
improvement and swamp and overflowed lands is vested in the Board 
of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund. The Commissioner of 
Agriculture is the salesman of all school, seminary, internal improve- 
ment, swamp and overflowed lands. 

The price of the school, seminary and internal improvement lands 
ranges from |1.25 to |7.00 per acre; these lands can be sold for cash, 
or on the installment plan, which latter plan, however, is to actual 
settlers only. Payments on installment purchases are as follows: 

One-third cash at time of purchase, one-third at the end of two years 
from date of purchase, and the third and last payment at the end of the 
third year. All parties making application to purchase on the install- 
ment plan are required to make affidavit that they have improvements 
on the land applied for, and must state the kind and character of such 
improvements. He must also make affidavit that no other person has 
any imi)rovements of any sort or kind on the lands Avanted ; these facts 



44 • THE JACKSONVILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 

must also be attested to by two sworn witnesses. When the above- 
mentioned affidavits, properly executed, with the full amount of the first 
payment, which is one-third of the i)urchase price, is delivered to the 
salesman of the land, a certificate of entry is given the purchaser and 
he holds it until the second and third payments are made; then the 
certificate of entry is surrendered to the salesman and a deed is issued 
to the purchaser. These installment certificates are assignable, and 
the assignee succeeds to all the rights and liabilities of the original 
purchaser. The purchaser is required to pay taxes on all lands entered 
on the installment plan from the date of the original entry. 

The swamp and overflowed land can generally be purchased, but 
the price is determined by the character and locality of the land ; it can 
also be purchased on the installment plan as above described. The actual 
settler can buy as many as eighty acres of this swamp land at twenty-five 
cents per acre if she or he will make affidavit that he or she is twenty-one 
years of age, or the head of a family, and that the entry is made for the 
purpose of acquiring a home, and that the application for said lands 
does not cover the improvements of any other person. No one can make 
two entries at twenty-five cents an acre. This law w^as intended to 
induce settlers to acquire a home at the lowest possible price. 



Stock Raising. 



Of the nearly 35,000,000 acres of land surface in Florida, about 
4,500,000 acres are included in farms, improved and unimproved; thus 
leaving over 30,000,000 acres available as gi-azing lands for cattle and 
sheej). It is not to be inferred from this that no cattle or sheep are 
raised in Florida, for in reality there were on the ranges last year, in 
round numbers, about 000,000 cattle; what we want to show is that 
there is abundant room for 3,000,000 head in i)lace of the comparative 
small number noted above. It is for the purpose of demonstrating to- 
the thousands of people who are interested in stock raising outside of 
Florida that we make these statements, to prove to them that it is not 
necessary to go to the bleak Northwest, or the far Southwest in order 
to make stock raising a successful and highly profitable industry. Having 
the vast area above stated, unsurpassed in extent and suitability for the 
raising of live stock of every kind, it would seem unaccountable that 
this industry should so long remain in a comparatively chaotic or passive 
condition ; a reasonable solution of the trouble would seem to be two-fold : 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 45 

tii-st, ignorance of the true situation on the part of those people in other 
states interested in such matters, mainly because the real conditions 
have never been placed before them in a proper and attractive form; 
second, because of a certain sort of prejudice that exists in the minds 
of many persons to the effect that the growing of stock can not succeed 
in what they are pleased, though erroneously, to call a hot climate, 
scourged with insect pests of every kind fatal to animal life. In the 
first instance people can not know the truth simply by intuition, and, 
in the second, there is absolutely not the slightest foundation for such 
belief. The truth is the climate of Florida is an ideal one for stock 
raising. In Southern Florida is found the greatest grazing region east 
of the Mississippi ; the climate is perfect, never cold enough to kill the 
grasses, which grow as green in January as in June, and where good 
water is in bountiful supply at all seasons of the year; even the longest 
drouth known has failed to produce a scarcity of water ; it is never hot 
enough to injure stock, and insect pests are only troublesome during 
parts of the months of May and June, after which time they disappear. 
In this countiw it is never so cold as to require housing, and feed does 
not have to be gi-own for winter use; the grasses grow the year round 
and stock thrives on it at all seasous. In all this territory the water 
supply never fails, as it does in the West— Texas, for instance, where 
herds'must be driven many miles to stagnant water holes, while thou- 
sands die of thirst on the way — something wholly unknown here. In 
Florida the hundreds of springs, creeks, rivers and lakes that never go 
dry furnish fresh water convenient to every pasture or range every 
moment of time; in fact, it is an undisputed truth that there is not a 
spot within the State that, surveyed from a common center for five miles 
around, running water will not be encountered; and as water is the 
most important factor in the make-up of a successful stock-raising 
country we lay this special stress upon the feature. We know of no 
other section of the country that can say as much. 

SHEEP RAISING. 

Sheep have done well in all sections of the State, though there are 
some localities better adapted to sheep husbandry than others. The 
larger flocks are found in West Florida, but there are localities in the 
far^Eastera and Southern portions of the State where the great prairies 
furnish fine pasturage. In fact, in every sectiou of the State there are 
large areas of lands, admirably adapted, which are now used for sheep 
pasturage. 



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Hogs are raised as snceessfiilly and ]»i-obal»ly cheaper than in any 
oHhm- connti-y. The famous ''razor back," of which so nmch lias been 
heard in connection Avith Florida, has long since departed. He has 
either been absorbed by grading with improved stock, or has dropped 
ont and yielded his place to other breeds. The breeds that have succeeded 
to the native stock, and which succeed perfectly, are the Berkshire, 
Poland China, Essex and the Duroe Red. These breeds are as success- 
fully raised here as in any country. And all hogs are nuich less 
suscejjtible to disease than in any other section of the country. 

DAIRY FARMING. 

This is another industry closely allied to stock raising, and a 
necessary adjunct to all-around profitable farming. The industry has 
greatly increased in importance in the last six or eight years. Fifteen 
to twent}- years ago a considerable number of thoroughbred Jersey. 
Ayreshire, Alderney, and some Holstein and Durham bulls and cows 
were introduced into the State, principally in the section lying between 
the Suwannee and Apalachicola Rivers. 

The effect of this was very soon noticeable in the betterment of milk 
stock b}^ grading up, till now a very large percentage of tlie stock, and 
especially that used for dairy purposes, are either thoroughbreds or high 
grade of one or the other breeds mentioned, but chiefly Jerseys. At 
this time, hoAvever, high grade and thoroughbred cattle are to be found 
in every section of the State, and the industry is paying handsome 
profits on the investment. The business is steadily increasing, yet the 
demand is far greater than the supply, the dairymen of the State not 
being able to supply more than ten per cent of the quantity consumed. 

Last year the milk disposed of to consumers amounted to a little 
over 3,000,000 gallons, valued at |890,00(). The butter produced amount- 
ing the same year to nearly 000,000 pounds, and sold at something over 
$140,00(1. This was the product of 85,000 cows of all grades, but really 
the ]iroduct of about 7,000 cows of improved milk stock. That there is 
an o]iening here for many times the present dimension of this industry 
is easily seen, and the facts as we have briefly given them can be verified 
bv anvone, at anv time. 



JACKSOXVILLE AXD FLORIDA FACTS. 



Fruits and Vegetables. 



Oranges. — Florida has acquired a world-wide fame for tlie produc- 
tion of the most delicious oranges groAvn, and for several years great 
})rofits Avere made bv owners of groves. The result was a veritable boom 
in the prices of lands supposed to be adapted for orange groves, and 
bearing groves sold at enormous figures. But several severe frosts, which 
destroyed not only the fruit, but in many i ases the trees themselves, 
shoAved that this business could not be entirely depended upon for perma- 
nence. (Trowers have, however, learned how to protect their groves, and 
the business is still conducted, although on a less extensive scale. The 
result of all this proved to be a blessing in disguise, as it led horti- 
culturists to turn their attention to more diversified crops. 

Pineapples. — In the southern part of the State this delicious fruit 
is extensively and profitably grown, and the acreage is constantly being- 
increased. 

Vegetables are grown for a profit all over the State. The same 
methods of cultivation are generally used here as in other states, except 
that they are adapted, as to time of planting, through the seasons, and 
Florida has the advantage of being able to send its products to Northern 
and Western markets at an earlier date than any of the states north of 
us, which enables them to command a monopoly of the market as well 
as prices. ^lany of these crops bring handsome returns. Tomatoes, 
for instance, have yielded as much as |1,000 per acre, but the average 
is from |3(I0 to |500. Irish potatoes will average nearly |100; lettuce, 
from |300 to |800 per acre; celery, as much as |1,500 per acre. Melons 
of every kind and variety abound and thrive in every section of Florida, 
Watermelons and cantaloupes are especially remunerative, and are 
shipped to markets in immense quantities. 

Of late years grapefruit has become very popular and is being largely 
grown, and commands high prices. 

From the foregoing it can be seen that there is no state in the Union 
which offers greater inducements to the industrious settler than does the 
fair State of Florida. 




48 THE JACKSONVILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 



Florida Fisheries. 



There is perhaps no industry of such great inii)ortauce to the State 
of Florida ahout which so little is known b}' the people generally, 
although no subject is so universally discussed with greater pleasure 
than that of landing prodigious hauls, or some huge specimen of the 
finny tribe, but it is of the industry in its commercial form that we write 
and desire to direct attention. 

The peculiar position which Florida occupies, with its (approxi- 
mately) twelve hundred miles of sea. coast, together with its numerous 
large bays, sounds, lagoons, and its rivers, lakes and streams all teeming 
with fish of almost every kind and variety, enables it to possess these 
natural advantages to a greater degree than is enjoyed by any other state 
Formerly, before transportation facilities had opened the way to markets 
beyond the v^tate, this industry was almost local in character. In the 
fall farmers and others from the interior portion of the State, and also 
from the States of Georgia and Alabama, would journey overland to 
the fisheries on the coast, and spend from two to four weeks accumulat- 
ing a supply of salt fish, principally of the mullet variety, which they 
would take back to their homes for winter use. Even under these condi- 
tions the business paid handsome profits to those engaged in it. 

The industry as it is today was begim about the year 1873, and the 
great bulk of the business was carried on at and from the ports of 
Pensacola, Apalacliicola, Cedar Key and Key West, on the Gulf, and 
Jacksonville and Fernandina on the Atlantic Coast. Since that time, 
owing to the continual and rapid increase in transportation facilities, 
through the building of new railroads, the industry has increased to 
immense proportions, still capable of expanding an hundred fold without 
in the least affecting the supply or overreaching the demand or the 
possibilities of extending the trade. 

The principal branches of the fishing industry are: sponge, red 
snapper, grouper, mullet, jiompano, Spanish mackerel, oyster and turtle 
fishing. 



Note: — For much of the foregoing, commencing with "A Geographical 
Description of Florida," I am indebted to Hon. B. E. McLin, Commissioner of Agri- 
culture of Florida. C. H. S. 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 49 



Trees of Florida. 



A Catalogue_, With Notes on the Distribution and Characteristics 
OF Each Species. 



BY PROF. A. H. CURTISS. 

In treating' of the trees of Florida it is essential first that we adopt 
u definition of tlie word tree. To do this we must draw a dividing line 
between the trees and shrubs, and this is manifestly difficult to do, 
because the same species often develops very dififerently in different 
sections. For example, the willow, in most parts of Florida, is only 
a slender shrub, yet in some localities it becomes a tree, and is split 
into rails. Moreover, in our subtropical region there are some plants 
(like the papaw and coral tree) which have stems from six to twelve 
inches in diameter and a height of fifteen or twenty-five feet, and yet 
they have little if any woody fiber. Manifestly the line of division 
between the trees and shrubs must be somewhat arbitrary and dependent 
on individual judgment. My experience has led me to regard as trees 
all plants having solid woody stems as much as four inches in diameter, 
growing erect, or nearly so, and without support. 

Applying this standard to the plants of Florida we find that there 
are in this State fully two hundred kinds of trees, without counting 
those which lack woody fiber, or those which, though enumerated among 
American trees, do not attain to a sufficient size in this State. This 
is 47 per cent of all the trees in the United States, and is a half more 
than can be found in any other State. This great diversity of forest 
growth is attributed mainly to the subtropical character of the Southern 
portion of the Peninsula. The vegetation of the Florida keys is identical 
with that of the Bahamas and other low islands beyond the Gulf Stream. 
There are to be found on the keys seventy kinds of trees, most of which 
grow also on the southern mainland, many extending northward along 
the coast as far as Cape Canaveral and Komano, some as far as Mosquito 
Inlet and Tampa Bay. All but two become reduced to mere bushes at 
their northern limit; these are the palmetto and pitch pine, the only 
trees which are found both on the southern and northern borders of 
the State. 

Our subtropical forests, in the aggregate, cover but a small area, 
and, although of great interest to the student, they can not be said to 



50 THE JACKSONVILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 

constitute an element of wealth. But if they were not included in the 
sylva of the State Florida could still boast a more varied forest than any 
other State. In the peninsular counties the variety is not great, but 
in the northwestern counties there may be found nearly all the trees 
of the Piedmont region of Tennessee and Virginia. The forests of the 
upper Apalachicola River are the finest in the State, both as to size and 
variety of timber. It is here that we find those beautiful and nearly 
extinct trees, the Florida yew and savin. In northern and middle 
Florida most of the trees of the Southern States find their southern 
limit, but as a rule they do not ''taper out" in size; on the contrary,, 
are unusually well developed. 

As the uses of different woods can not be represented in so condensed 
a table, I present this most important detail in the following form, not 
giving the uses of each tree, but lists of all the trees adapted to a 
particular purpose. A. H. Curtiss. 

Fuel. — Most of the pines, oaks and hickories afford excellent fuel, 
also beech, sugar maple, magnolia, black titi, etc. In Southern Florida 
the woods most used for fuel are the buttonwood, Jamaica dogA\'oody 
crabwood and torchwood. 

Fencing. — For posts or rails the following trees are preferred : Black 
cypress, red cedar, juniper, yellow pine, post oak, chestnut oak, white 
oak, overcup oak, willow, hornbeam chestnut, mulberry, honey locust, 
sassafras, slippery elm, hackberry. 

Building. — For general construction a large variety of woods may 
be used, but pine is found most convenient, economical and generally 
satisfactory. For all work which is exposed to the weather, either long- 
leaved yellow or pitch pine should be used. The latter serves almost 
as well for framing timbers, but for sills it is not so durable. For 
sheathing and inside Avork generally short-leaved yellow and loblolly 
pine may be used. 

Flooring. — Probably no wood is equal for this purpose to the long- 
leaved yelloAv pine. Where this is not obtainable, white elm, sugar 
maple, etc., may be used. 

Shingles. — Cypress ranks the best, juniper second, and yellow pine 
is largely used. 

Interior Finish. — The kinds of wood best adajited to inside orna- 
mentation are curly pine, red bay, white and green ash, sugar maple, 
cherry, box elder, black walnut, white oak, juniper, magnolia and poplar. 

Cabinetwork and Furniture. — Poplar, nmgnolia, white cypress, 
curly pine, birch, beech, chestnut, white oak, black walnut, red bay, 
white and green ash, sweet gum, cherry, red and sugar maple, holly, 
loblolly bay, chinaberry, and many of the subtro])ical woods. For cheap 
furniture, silver maple, hackberry, sycamore, linn and pine are used. 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 51 

Cooperage. — Bitternut hickory, white elm, mulberry, dogwood, 
sassafras, box elder, cypress, juniper, and various oaks, namely : the 
white, post, chestnut, scarlet, black and red. 

Ship and Boat Building. — White, overcup and live oak. yelloAV pine, 
cypress, juniper, poplar, mulberry, white elm, sugar maple. Of South 
Florida woods Jamaica dogwood, mahogany, mastic, wild tamarind and 
inkwood are favorite kinds. 

Wagons and Carriages. — White and green ash, red and pignut 
hickory, poplar and linn, white, post and overcup oak. 

Wheel Stock. — White elm, slijtpery elm and oaks of various kinds ; 
hubs being made of red elm, black gnni, dogwood and honey locust. 

Agricultural Implements. — Red and pignut hickory, white and green 
ash, white, overcup and chestnut oak. 

Tool Handles and Plane Stocks.— Hornbeam and ironwood, red and 
pignut hickory, beech, persimmon, sourwood, sloe, sparkleberry. 

Ox Yokes. — Black gum, sassafras, black birch, sycamore, bitternut 
hickory. 

Saddletrees. — White elm, sugar maple. 

Wooden ware. — Linn, poplar, white bay, juniper, black birch, tupelo 
gum, box elder, red maple. 

Baskets. — Red hickory, pignut hickory, tough Avhite oak, swamp 
chestnut oak. 

Broom Handles. — White bay, tupelo. 

Wooden Shoes.— Tupelo, black birch. 

Gun Stocks. — Red maple, black walnut. 

Rollers and Bearings of Machinery. — Black gum, dogwood, sour- 
wood. 

Engravers' Blocks. — Dog-^ood. 

Shoe Lasts. — Sugar maple, persimmon, beech. 

Shuttles. — Persimmon. 

Levers. — Hornbeam, ironwood. 

Tobacco Boxes. — Sycamore. 

Paper Pulp. — Cottonwood, linn, box elder. 

Floats. — Tupelo. 

Oars. — White and green ash. 

Pencils.— Red cedar. 

Canes.^ — Orange, crabwood, princewood, torchwood, palmetto, royal 
palm. 

Piles. — Palmetto, yellow and pitch pine, black gum, mangrove. 

Railway Ties. — Black cypress, juniper, yellow pine, chestnut, post 
oak, white oak, slippery elm, mulberry, catalpa. 

Tanning Barks. — The mangrove affords most tannin, but the kinds 
most used are the black and red oaks and the tan or loblolly bay. 



52 THE JACKSONVILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 

Medicinal barks are afforded by the clieirv, dogwood, white bay, 
willow, sassafras, Georgia bark, prickly ash, poplar, slippery elm, white 
oak, and a number of the subtropical trees. 



Facts About the State of Florida. 



Florida has an area of 59,208 square miles. 

Florida's acreage is 37,931,520. 

Florida has 1,058,683 acres of land in cultivation. 

Florida produces a greater variety of fruit, vegetable and farm vn)\)i- 
than any other state in the Union. 

Florida's average death rate per thousand is only 10.80. 

Florida is the best hunting and fishing state east of the Mississii)i)i 
River. 

Florida has a greater extent of sea coast than any other State. 

Florida has forty-five railroads, including the branch and lumber 
roads. 

Florida is the only State in the Fnion };ro<]ucing sponges; harvest 
worth half a million dollars a year. 

Florida is less subject to extremes of tem])erature than any other 
state in the Union. 

Florida leads all other states as a resort for tourists and health 
seekers. 

Florida has a greater variety of trees than any other state in the 
Union. 

Florida produces cotton, corn, sugarcane, tobacco, rice, pineapples, 
oranges, grapefruit, guavas, peaches, plums, lenums, pecans, limes, figs, 
grapes, tomatoes — in fact, a varied assortment of crops and fruits, many 
of which can not be successfully grown farther north, except in hothouses. 

Florida also produces kaolin which is pronounced superior to any 
other known. It is so abundant that it would pay to manufacture it 
into ornamental bricks. 

Florida produces phosphate and aluminum, and gypsum that will 
run ninety-four per cent of sulphate of lime. Also a superior quality 
of white cement, well ada])ted for ornamental tile brick. 

Florida abounds in inunense deposits of phosphate rock, from Avhich 
the markets of the world are being supplied. 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 



Who Should and Who Should Not Settle in Florida. 



Don't come eniptj- handed. A little capital is just as necessary to 
get a start in Florida as anj'where else. 

Don't come if jon are doing well where yon are. Florida is no 
place for discontented folks. 

Don't come expecting- to find a country wh.ere you can live with 
little or no work, unless you have an income that will support 30U. 

Don't come if you are out of a job and can't get one at home. If 
you can't find emplojiuent where you are known you will not be likely 
to find it among strangers. 

Don't come if you are a semi-invalid, hoping to earn enough to pay 
expenses during the winter and then return to the North in the spring. 
Florida is full of such deluded unfortunates. 

Don't come if you are merely the "promoter" of a ''splendid business 
scheme," with the expectation of finding captialists ready to put up 
the cash against your "experience" and pay you a fat salary- as a 
manager of the company. 

Come if you have capital to lend or invest in any legitimate manu- 
facturing enterprise. 

Come if you are plucky and energetic, and know how to embrace an 
opportunity when you see it. Come if you like a mild climate better 
than a cold one — a good "all-year-round" climate. 

Come if you are willing to assist in developing the wonderful 
resources of the State and become a permanent citizen. 

Come if you are a horticulturist, vine grower, truck gardener, or 
a good mechanic. 




54 THE JACKSOXYILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 



Extracts from President Garner's Annual Address to 
the Board of Trade, January 3, 1 906. 

Members of the Jacksonville Board of Trade: Gentlemen— The 
year 1905 has been a record-breaking one in the growth and pros- 
perity of this city. It is not my intention to tax your time and 
patience with a mass of statistics to show the marvelous achieve- 
ments in almost every line of development. 

To show you briefly, however, the wonderful stride and progress 
made, the business of our postoffice, which is always indicative of the 
volume of business transacted, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1805, showed receipts of $67,449; in 1900, $86,938; in 1905, $157,989. 

CLEARINGS FOR JACKSONVILLE, 

Our clearing-house reports tell the story, and confirm the record 
made at the postoffice, and are as follows : 

1899 $12,642,953 

1900 12,733,048 

1901 16,757,772 

1902 18,927,504 

1903 26,112,716 

1904 43,265,462 

1905 60,000,000 

THE PORT RECORDS. 

If any further testimony is necessary to confirm the statement that 
1905 has been a record-breaking year, the custom-house reports can 
be put in evidence. The value of foreign imports was $633,890, as 
against $230,846 for 1904, and $57,868 for 1903. 

The shipment of lumber for 1905 amounted to 219,923,933 feet, as 
against a total shipment during the year 1904 of 188,892,225 feet. 

The shipment of naval stores was 324,633 packages, as against 265,- 
407 in 1904. 

NEW ENTERPRISES. 

These figures speak more eloquently than words, but do not indi- 
cate the growth of our city as much as the new enterprises estab- 
lished and capital invested in various manufacturing and mercantile 
establishments during the year 1905. Probably no city in this coun- 
try can make a showing that will at all compare with what is con- 
tained in these figures. 

There have been one hundred and thirteen companies, with an 
aggregate capital stock of twelve million six hundred and sixty-four 



JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 55 



thousand dollars, organized under the laws of this State, and have 
established their business and headquarters in this city during 1905. 

In addition to this, there have been hundreds of individual and 
copartnership enterprises started. 

FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT. 

In the general upbuilding of the city our financial institutions have 
kept pace with other lines of development. 

The capital stock of all the banks in this city on December 31, 190-t, 
amounted to $975,000, with a surplus of $357,000, and deposits $6,522 - 
849 making a total of $7,851,849. On December 31, 1905, the total 
capital stock of all the banks amounted to $2,025,000, surplus $479,259, 
deposits $10,024,789, showing a net gain in the bank capital of this 
city of $1 050,000, or an increase of 53 per cent, in deposits and 59 per 
cent in available money to carry on the growing commerce of our city. 

There have been organized four new banks during 1905, with a 
capital stock of one million two hundred thousand dollars, and I will 
say in this connection that the banking business is in the hands ot 
careful, conservative men, and are all in a prosperous condition. 

A WONDERFUL RECORD. 

Probably the most gratifying development during the past year has 
been in the manufacturing industries of our city. I will venture the 
assertion that more capital has been invested in manufactures m the 
year 1905 than in any previous ten years in the history of the city. 
These manufactures consist in part of immense fertihzer manufactur- 
ing establishments; two large sand lime brick factories: one of the 
largest and best equipped leath fa tories in the South; large bot- 
tling works, and various other smaller estabhshments. 

The naval stores industry, in which so many of our citizens are 
deeply interested, has never been in so prosperous a condition Good 
prices have prevailed during the year, and the prosperity of the busi- 
ness for vears to come is now practically assured by a recent agree- 
ment with the export and distributing houses who market the 
product. 

RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

The thanks of this board are especially due the river and harbor 
committee for the efficient manner in which they have performed 
their labors. Through the courtesy of Mr. W. W. Cummer, chairman 
of that committee, Senator W. P. Frye, chairman of the committee 
on commerce in the Senate, was taken to the mouth of the river and 
shown the progress of the work and the necessities for the improve- 
ment of our river and harbor. He assured me personally that he was 
very much impressed with the importance of the work, and 1 teei 



56 THE JACKSONVILLE BOARD OF TRADE. 

sure that when river and harbor matters are to be considered by the 
committee, of which he is chairman, that matters affecting the fur- 
ther improvement of the St. Johns river and bar will receive due 
consideration. 

FOR 24-FOOT CHANNEL. 

The dredge St. Johns is now actively engaged in deepening the 
river near its mouth. The powerful dredge, owned by the Atlantic 
Dredge Company, is at work on the White Shells, and the dredge 
Jacksonville is temporarily out of commission, pending the installa- 
tion of more powerful machinery. For the first time, and within the 
past month, we are assured that vessels can go from our port to sea 
drawing twenty feet of water, and with the aid of the dredges now 
at work it is reasonable to assume, and we have every assurance of, 
a speedy completion of the project adopted by Congress calling for 
twenty -four feet at low tide from Jacksonville to the ocean. A recent 
letter from Captain Shunk submitted to the river and harbor commit- 
tee of this board explains in detail the progress of this work. 

FLOATING DRYDOCK. 

I will mention in connection with marine matters that the Merrill- 
Stevens Engineering Company are constructing and have about com- 
pleted a floating drydock of sufficient capacity to handle any vessel 
entering our port. This will make Jacksonville headquarters for the 
overhauling and repairing of large vessels on the South Atlantic, and 
means a very great deal to the development of our city. 

It is gratifying to note that the relations between the various trans- 
portation lines centering in this city, and the merchants and manu- 
facturers, are of a most friendly character. Few complaints, and 
those of only a minor kind, have come to this board for adjustment 
between the shippers and the transportation lines. 

NOTABLE CONVENTIONS HELD HERE. 

This report would not be complete without mentioning the recep- 
tions and entertainments that have been given by this board to 
various associations and individuals. Among others were the Indiana 
School Teachers' Association, the Horticultural Society of Florida, the 
National Good Roads Association, Southeastern Stock Growers' Asso- 
ciation, Odd Fellows' Convention, Travelers' Protective Association, 
and other large assemblages. Among other distinguished visitors 
who were entertained by this board were Senator W. P. F; ye, Secre- 
tary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Navy Paul 
Morton, and Speaker J. G. Cannon, and last, but not least, President 
Theodore Roosevelt. I am sure that all these distinguished gentle- 



JACKSOXVILLE AND FLORIDA FACTS. 57 

men were pleased with our humble efforts to entertain them and 
make their visit to our city a pleasant one. 

THE EAST COAST EXTENSION. 

Among the great events of 1905 was the beginning of the extension 
of the Florida East Coast Railway from Miami to Key West over the 
Florida Keys and the Gulf of Mexico. The building of this road is 
one of the greatest achievements in railroad construction that has 
ever been undertaken. It will no doubt be of inestimable value to 
our State, and will make a trip from Miami to Key West practically 
a sea trip— an ocean voyage in a Pullman, and will be an unsurpassed 
scenic railway trip. 

For this and other developments that have made Florida prosperous 
and the pleasure resort of the world— that have given employment to 
thousands of people— is due to the public spirit and enterprise of 
Henry M. Flagler. 

The work of this board in voicing public sentiment is efficient and 
invaluable. To many of us who have passed from the meridian to 
the afternoon of life, it is a pleasure to know that when we have gone 
to the great beyond we will leave on the banks of the noble St. Johns 
river a city that will stand as a monument to our endeavors and an 
inheritance to our children: a city that has recovered from an epi- 
demic in 1888, which seemed at that time an irretrievable disaster ; 
has survived the effects of the great freeze in 1894-95, which entailed 
the greatest loss which was ever sustained by a city, and was enough 
to discourage a people less brave and self-reliant than ours; a city 
that has arisen from the ashes of the great fire of May 3rd, 1901; a 
city whose citizenship will stand unrivaled; whose public buildings, 
business houses and public improvements of every kind cannot be 
surpassed; a city of refined, cultivated, moral and progressive people, 
who having been welded together by adversity to a greater degree 
than any amount of prosperity could have accomplished: a united, 
helpful people, always ready to stand together in promoting its public 
welfare and future glory. 

We do not claim that the wonderful achievements of the past or 
previous years which have placed this city in the very front rank of 
the progressive cities of the country, are exclusively the work of this 
Board of Trade, but we do submit that no body of men in all this land- 
that no organization of this kind— has worked harder, more unitedly, 
or with greater enthusiasm, toward not only the upbuilding of the 
city, but of the entire State, than has the Jacksonville Board of Trade. 
To accomplish these things is the motive and inspiration of this 
organization. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



65 



C. W. RICHARDSON, 

President. 



C. E. SMITH, 
Vice President. 



F. P. CONROY. 

Secretary & Tre js 



8MITN. RICHARDSON & CONROY. 



(Incorporated ) 




EvSTABLISHMENT OF SMITH. RICHARDSON & CONROY, 



FRESH MEATS AND PROVISIONS 



state Agents for 

SCHWARZSCHILD & SULZBERGER CO., 

BEEF AND PORK PACKERS, 
Kansas City, Chicago. \ew York. 



state Agents for 

BEECHNUT PACKING CO., Canajoharie, N. Y. 

Beechnut Sliced Dried Beef. Beechnut Sliced Breakfast Bacon. 

Beechnut Sliced Boiled Ham. 



WE ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF THE FOLLOWING 

Hotel Supplies, Steamship Supplies, Cream and Evaporated Milk, Eggs and 
Cheese, Poultry and Game, Vegetables. Butterine, Mansfield's Pure Butter. 
Sweet Clover Brand Renovated Butter, Chip Soap, Soap Powder 



CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 

Address SMITH, RICHARDSON & CONROY, 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



66 ADVERTISEMENT F!. 



Robert W. Simms 



I Importer of Wines 

I WHolesatle Liquors 

I A gent ScHlitz Milwa -u Ree B e er. 

: JACKSONVILLE, - - FLORIDA. 



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CHA5. BLUM (a CO. 

51T and 519 ^V. BAY ST. JACKSONVILLE:. FLA. 

Wholesale Licjxior Dealers 

state Agents 

PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER, MOUNT VERNON WHISKEY, 

LEWIS' 1866 WHISKEY. MONORIEF SPRINGS 

BOTTLED IN BOND, AND OTHER POPULAR BRANDS. 

Price list on application. 

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Authorized Bottlers of the Famous 

German Drink 

+ BILTZ-BRAUSE + 

ALSO 

Peach Mellow, Dr. Pepper and Iron Brew ; all 
kinds of Sodas. Mineral Water a Specialty. 
LITHIA TOPAZ GINGER ALE. j^ j^ j^ 

Phone \ 375. 624 West Bay St. E. A. RICKER, Mgr. 



A D YER TIS EMENT^ . 



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East Coast Lumber Co., 

Rough and Dressed Long Leaf 

YELLOW PINE LUMBER 



BUNDLED ROSIN BARREL 5TAVES 
IN CARLOAD LOTS. 

steamer Shipments a Specialty. 

WATERTOWN, FLORIDA. 



I FLORIDA ELECTRIC COMPANY | 

41 22 to 28 West Forsyth Street. fi 

% Wholesale Electrical Supplies. % 



STEAM TURBINES, 
PUMPS, BLOWERS, 
ENGINES, BOILERS, 
GENERATORS, MOTORS, 



ELEVATORS, TELEPHONES, <» 

SWITCH BOARDS, 4* 

SEARCH LIGHTS, "fr 

GAS AND ELECTRIC FIXTURES. fl* 



J CONSOLIDATED ENGINEERING CO., J 

2 26 W. Forsyth Street. ^ 

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A Complete Isolated Electric Plants Installed. House Wiring and ^ 
A Contracting, Armature Winding and General Repairing. iQi 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 69 



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ADVERTISEMENTS. 



IHerrlll^Stevens Co. 

marine Construction and Repairs. 











Builders of 

Steamboats 
Boilers and 
machinery 





4000 ton Tloatina Dock 
1200 ton marine Railway 
$00 ton marine Railway 
Cauncb Dry Dock 



600 to 654 €a$t Bay Street, 
Jacksonville «««««« fiorida. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



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ra GROCER! 



C. B. ROGERS. Frksident. 
W. A. Gallaher, Vice-Pres. 
E. A. Champlain, 
C. M. Covington. 

PRINCIPAL office: 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 




John Ball. Sec'y and Treas. 

R. F. Mitchell, Asst. .^ec'y and Treas. 

W. D. Gallaher. ' 

Elmo Th.^mes. 

BRANCH HOUSES : 

SAVANNAH, GA., PENSACOLA, FLA., 
TAMPA, FLA. 



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We have on 
hand a Com- 
plete Assort- 
ment of Tools 
and Supplies 
for Turpen- 
tine Farms, 
including 
Hoop Iron, 
Glue and Bat- 
ting. Also 
Wagons and 
Harness. 

We are 
State Agents 
for the 

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of Heavy and 
Fancy Gro- 
ceries is the 
largest in the 
South and its 
constant re- 
newal is made 
necessary by 
orders re- 
ceived from 
a corps of 
nineteen 
salesmen. 

We repre- 
sent the Fair- 
bank Canning 
Co. (Packers 
of Meats in 
Florida). 



Hay, Grain and Feed in car loads or smaller 
quantities at the lowest market prices. 

Quotations promptly furnished on applica= 
tion. Send us your mail orders. 

Shipments made without delay. 

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72 ADVERTISEMEKTH. 



J. D. HOLMES, President. JOHN D BAKER. Vice Prcs. E. F. EOWEN, Sec. & Treas. 

Baker & Holmes Company, 

I-:stablislieil LSS9. 

Wholesale Grocers. 

Jobbers of Grain. Hay. Lime Cement. State Ayents for Carrara Paint and 

Long (ioat Hair. Plaster Paris. Alpha Portland 

Fire Brick and Clay. Cement. 



THE 



STORY OF CARRARA PAINT 



The story of CARRARA PAINT is worth the telling and worth the reading. 

It's the story of a success, and success is always inspiring. 

Some years ago, a world-renowned chemist discovered the secret of a pigment which, in 
proper combination with linseed oil, produced a paint of marvelous toughness, coveting power, 
durability and beauty. 

He was firmly convinced that it was destined to revolutionize the paint business. He set 
about convincing others. 

Like every departure from the institutions of our grandfathers, this one was jeered, at. 
ridiculed and discounted by the very persons who should have been most interested in proving 
its worth. 

But the discoverer was not discouraged. 

He finally went to the head of a Baltimore concern and proposed to prove that his paint 
was better than any other 

Now, there is no place so hard on paint as a chemical laboratory. The fumes and gases 
cause white paint to turn yellow, and after the lapse of weeks, or at most months, entirely de- 
stroy the coating. In this particular factory the walls were painted white for the sake of light 
and cleanliness; painters were obliged to repaint frequently on account of discoloration and 
consequent lack of refleciin.g power. 

The discoverer knew that no gases, no washing, would have the slightest effect upon 
CARRARA. 

In his boundless earnestness and enthusiasm he exclaimed : "If I paint your factory and 
laboratory with CARRARA PAINT, and it is in good condition at the end of five years, will you 
put up the money to manufacture and market it?" 

He did not stop to think how long five years would be. 

Without a moments hesitation, the answer came: "Yes." 

The building was painted. At the end of a year the CARRARA PAINT man called and. 
finding the paint in as good a condition as when placed upon the walls, asked the Company if 
they were not ready to go ahead. 

"You said five years," was replied. 

Not a day, not an hour, would the men subtract from the allotted time. They wanted a 
thorough, practical test. 

It was weary waiting for the man with the secret of the pigment, but he was upheld by the 
certainty of success in the end, and five years from the date the agreement was made he had 
his reward. 

The paint was apparently unchanged. A sponge and warm water restored the dirtiest 
place to its original gloss and whiteness. The coating was tough and elastic, showing that the 
life of the paint was unimpaired 

The CARRARA COMPANY sprang into existence, and, from a small factory, has grown 
and expanded until it now operates the largest exclusive house-paint factory in the world. 



Messrs Baker & Holmes Co., Jacksonville, Fla. Mt. Dora P"la., July II, 1903. 

(Jentlemen:- 1 have used considerable of your paint. I think there is nothing like it. The 
reason I did not order any was that I got it from your agent in town, Mr. K. C. Tremain. 

ARTHUR ORTON, Contractor and Builder. 

Jacksonville, Fla., May 13, 1905. 
:Messrs. Baker & Holmes Co., City. 

Dear Sirs; — In regard to CARRARA PAINT. I used it in painting my house and barn, 
and I find after two years it is in excellent condition. I believe it will last me twice as long as 
any paint I have ever used. I think it is particularly suited for this climate. It keeps 
its finish better than any paint I have ever seen. 

Wishing you continued success with CARRARA, which it deserves, I am. 

Yours cordially, 

ROBT. W. SIMMS. 

Jacksonville, Fla., May, 13. 1905. 
Messrs. Baker & Holmes Co., City. 

Gentlemen:— Replying to your inquiry regarding CARRARA PAINT, will say that I 
painted my house with this a little more than two years ago. and I was greatly pleased with 
same, both in cost of material used and the appearance of the house afterwards. It was cer- 
tainly an exceedingly nice job, and the house looks about as well as it did right after it was 
painted. I should be glad to recommend CARRARA PAINT for you any time, and I certainly 
would not use any other. Yours very truly. 

C. W. ZARING. 



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C. B. Van Deman Co. 

= WHOLESALE GROCERS =^ 
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS 




STATE AGENTS FOR: 



Clover Hill Butter, 
White House Coffee, 
Van Camp's Products, 
El Principe de Gales Cigars. 



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Our Fox River Butter is 5old under an Absolute Guarantee. 

If you value purity, you will find the acme of cleanliness represented in this 
butter. It makes friends everywhere. 

The White House Coffee is imported by us in carload quantities, and is guaran- 
teed to be entirely free from griazing- or other adulteration. Makes just the best cup 
of coffee you ever tasted. 

Every housewife should know about 

Van Camp's Cow in the Pantry. 

Their Cream is easily the best to be had in the world. 
What do you know of V.\x Camps Pork and Beans? 



EL PRINCIPE CIGARS THE ONLY KIND. 



Our Candy Pepartment is thoroughly equipped and our product will bear 
comparison with the best Manufactories in America. 



WILLIAM A. BOURS Established 1875 JAMES C. DARBY 

WILLIAM A. BOIRS & COMPANY 

THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED GRAIN AND SEED HOUSE IN THE STATE 



Hay, Crain, Feed, Garden 
Seeds, Poultry Supplies, 
Flour, Grits, Meal and 
Fertilizers- 



OUR MOTTO: Prompt Shipment. Reliable Goods. Catalogue Eree. 

206 EAST BAY ST., JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



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CHAS. M. LYNCH, Vice Pros. 



J. F. DUSENBURY, Trcas, 
;. A. LYNCH. Sec. 



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JACKSONVILLE, FLA. J 



It's Up to You 



To increase the demand for 
your candies. That is easily 
done if you \vill only keep our 
high-grade 

Peanut and Cocoanut Brittle 

!n 25'Pound Boxes, Assorted. 



Order through your jobber or direct 

from us. We Manufacture 

and Carry a Full Line 

Stick Candy, Mixed Candy, Penny 

Goods, CiioGola^es and 

Pacl(age Goods. 

Send for Price List. 

THE E. J. SMITH CO., 

Jacksonville, Fla. 



JACKSONVILLE 
GROCERY 
COMPANY 



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WHOLESALE 



Grocers' and Distillers' 
Supplies. 

W. J. HARRIS, MANAGER. 

Office and Waretiouse Viaduct A. C. L R'|, 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



75 



H. E. HARKISHEIMER, 

Presidf-nt. 



E. L. VORDERMARK, 

Sec'y and Treasurer. 



Cbe Elgin Butter Company 

OF FLORIDA. 

U iJ WHOLESALE DEALERS IN iJ ii 

Butter and €bee$e. 

Office, 718 W. Bay St. Cold Storage, 752 W. Bay St. 

JACKSONVILLF, FLORIDA. 



WILKISON ^_SPILLER 

FANCY GROCERIES 
IMPORTED SPECIALTIES 



OUR MOTTO : 



Not Lowest Price, but Best Goods. 
327 WEST BAY ST. 



American Produce Co. 

FLORIDA'S LARGEST AND BEST 

FRUIT AND PRODUCE HOUSE. 

CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. 

16 South Hogan St„ JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



L I B E R. X Y M I Iv L 
NasHville, Teni>. 




DeSOTO FLOUR 

BEST ON EARTH 

T. A. JONES, Agt. 
Jacksonville, = Florida. 



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A OVERT 1 8 B M E N T« . 



THE RACE=CARTER CO., Inc. 

I HE STAFFORD & WARD CO. 

-HIGH GRADE PLUMBING- 

Roofing - Heating. 




28 and 30 West Adams Street. 



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F. 0. MILLERJ 

419 West Bay Street, g 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA.E 

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Everything in £ 

Sewing \ 
Machines \ 



1 PHONE 1217. ^ 



TELEPHONE 


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WEST BAY ST. 



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IHE MARVIN SHOE CO., 

233 West Bay Street, Everett Block. 

Leaders in up-to-date 
FOOT W^EAR 

For All Members of the Family. 



ADVERTI8EMEXTi 

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ROBERT GAMBLE, 

President. 



A. BLOCK, N. M. BLOCK, 

Secretary-Treasurer. Vice-President. 



CAPITAL $300,000. Iticorporated. 

Florida Ice Mfg. Co. 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 




Daily Capacity 360 tons. 



Storage Capacity 6000 tons. 



ICE iflD[ OF m\m ME. 

Carload orders shipped to any 
point in Florida and Georgia upon 
short notice. 



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THE F LORIDA 
WHITE PRESSED BRICK CO., 



( INCORPORATED ) 

Green Cove Springs and Jacksonville 

TRADE MARK 

X X 

Manufacturers and Sole Distributers == GRANITE ;=:;:=: 

GRANITE, SAND-LIME BRICK BUILDING BLOCKS 

"SYSTEM HUENNEKES" ALL DIMENSIONS 

Jacksonville Offices: Dyal=Upchurch BIdg. 

PHONE NO. 1894. 




COR. MAIN AND FORSYTH STS. 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 

REAL ESTATE. 

LOANS AND INVESTMENTS. 

CONSULTING CIVIL AND MECHANICAL 

ENGINEERS. 

Rooms 4 and 5 Livingston BIdg. Telephone 771. 



ADVERTISEMENTI^. 



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DIAMONDS, 

WATCHES, 

JEWELRY. 

CLOCKS, 

SILVERWARE, 

FINE CHINA. 

EUROPEAN NOVELTIES, 

OBJECTS OF ART. 

MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE 

PROMPT ATTENTION. 



GREENLEAF & CROSBY CO., 

JEWELERSAND IMPORTERS, 
41 W. BAY STREET. JACKSONVILLE, FLA, 

We invite a comparison of Prices, Write for our Illustrated Catalogue "D/* 



THE 

ONLY 

.GROWER 

OF 
CARNATIONS 

IN 
■ FLORIDA. 



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The Largest Florist Establishment in the State. Give us your Order: We'll do the rest. 

l^/I I I_. L. S 



THE FLORIST, 

10 East 8th Street. 



JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 

36 West Forsyth Street. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 






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SOUTHERN DRUG MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

Importers and Wholesale Druggists, 
JACKSONVILLE, _ - - FLORIDA 



FRANK S. GRAY, S. B. HUBBARD, JR.. JOHN FINIG, W. T. PAFSCNS 

Prest. 1st V. P. andTreas. 2n(l V. Prest. Secy. 

UTe S. B. Hubbard Co. 



Wholesale ai\d Retail Dealers in 

HARDWARE, 

Stoves, Tinware, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Paints, Oils, 
Farming Tools, Barbed Wire, 

IRON, STEEL AND AMMUNITION. 
Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fitting Supplies a Specialty. 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



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THE CHRISTIE-GROOVER DRUG CO. 

WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, 

JACKSONVILLE £5 £5 £5 £2 £5 FLORIDA. 

THE LARGEST STOCK. 



GIVE. US YOUR ORDERS. 



THE BEST PRICES £ S. 
THE QUICKEST SE RVICE. 
J0' 




W. p. Richardson & Co 



H GENERAL CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. ^ 



Office-NEW CONSOLIDATED BUILDING. 
Phone 691. East Bay Street, 

P. O. Box 36. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 





T.J. BROWN, 

WHARF AND BRIDGE BUILDER, 

SUB-MARINE DIVING. WRECKING 



AND GENERAL CONTRACTOR. £5 



Office--No. 8 Herkimer Block £5 



£3 £i 



JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



FOR ANYTHING IN 



STONE, MARBLE OR TILE, ^ ^ 

^ ^ MONUMENTAL OR BUILDING, 



SOUTHERN MARBLE & STONE CO. 

REED E. LaMANCE, Manager. 



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ADVERTISEMENTS. 



ROLAND WOODWARD, 



CONSULTING ENGINEER, 



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Realty Building, 



Forsyth and Newnan Streets, 
JACKSONVILLE. FLA. 



^V<iAAA/»>»V>»A/V*A^AA/*. 



G. H. RICHARDS 




Examinations and Surveys for flunicipal Im= 
provements. Sewer and Water Worlds, Railroad 
Bridges, Wharves, Deep Foundations, Canals, and 
Irrigation. 



THE HARKISHEIMER COMPANY 



LEALERS IN 



GROCERIES anJ HOTEL SUPPLIES 
A FULL LINE OF DELICATESSEN 

COR. MAIN AND FORSYTH STS. COR. MAIN AND 6TH STS. 

Long Distance and Local Telephone 77. 

ESTABLISHED 1877. INCORPORATED 1904. 



-TELEPHONE 660. 



^llDilcH' &TCAM lAvTRDRV 



WASHINGTON STREET. 
High Grade Domestic "Work Only. Specialty : Shirts, Collars and Cuffs. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 83 



A. H. WEST. PRES. W. R. RANNIE, ViCE-PRES. M. V. RALEY, SEC. & TREAS. 

WEST-RALEY-RANNIE 
COMPANY 

Timber Lands - Turpentine Locations - Grazing Lands 



^ 114 WEST FORSYTH STREET ^ 

Bell Phone 375 - 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



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RENFROE & WILLIAMS 

^ ^ REAL ESTATE AGENTS -^ ^ 

Timber Lands a Specialty ^ Turpentine and Saw Mill 
Locations Bought and Sold 

RENFROE & WILLIAMS ^^^Sing'^'' 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



STANDARD ELECTRIC CO. 

Electrical Engineers and Contractors 

16 WEST FORSYTH STREET 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



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ADVERTISEMENTS. 



The Largest Retail 

Dry Goods House 

in the State 

Cohen Bros. 

Popular Dry Goods 

House 
Jacksonville, - Fla. 



Citizens Loan Association 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 

Capital $50,000. 

Homes built on monthly pay- 
ments in Duval County only. 

DIRECTORS: 

B. F. Dillon, President. 

R. D. Knight, 1st V-President. 

Jos. G. Craig, 2ad V-President. 

P. A. DiGNAN, Sec'y and Treas. 

S. E. Foster, Att'y- 

P. R. WiGGS, Auditor. 
C. C. Bettes, G. Murphy, 
M. L. Howard, E. S. Spencer, 
L. C. Menager, M. H. Slager, 
H. E. Harkisheimer. 



CAY, SHINE & McCALL, 

FIRE INSURANCE. 

l\2 Dyal-Upchurch Building. Phone 1955. 



SIG. HESS. MAURICE H. SLAGER. 

HE SS & SLAGER , 

DIAMONDS, SILVERWARE 
AND JEWELRY. 

11 and 13 Main Street. 
339 W. Bay, cor. Cedar 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



GIFFORD & 


COMPANY, 


Florida Real Estate Exchange. 

■ 15 LAURA ST. CGifford Building), 
JACKSONVILLE, = = FLORIDA. 


Lands Loans 

Lots Homes 

Farms Rents 

Taxes 



ADYERTISEMENTS. 




City Property 
Orange Grov 



Timber Lands 
Rental Agents 



BROBSTONFtNDKIaiKlCO. 



REAL ESTATE 



Established 1890 



Phone 234 216 W. Forsyth St. 

SEND for TIMBER BULLETIN 



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I CHAS. W. KINNE | 

REAL ESTATE AND 
FIRE INSURANCE 



City and Suburban Property | 
for Sale 



LOANS NEGOTIATED 




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REAL ESTATE 



16 HOGAN SsTREET 

CITY PROPERTY BOUGHT AND SOLD 



ESTABLISHED J828. 

THE FI^ORIDIAN 

A. M. WILLIAMSON, Editor and Proprietor. 

LI]N OTYPE COMPOSITION 

BRIEF WORK A SPECIALTY 

213 EAST ADAMS ST. PHONE 392 



AD YER TI SEMEN TS. 



The Florida Times-Union 

The Great State Paper 

Daily, Sunday and Semi-Weekly 



Profusely Illustrated 
Established '™ 1865 



FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE 

WIDE CIRCULATION 

PUBLISHED AT 

Jacksonville, Florida 



WM W. FRAZIER [SAAC BRERETON 



REAL ESTATE BROKERS 



CITY PROPERTY 
SUBURBAN PROPERTY 
MORTGAGES AND RENTS 



1 WEST FORSYTH STREET 



JACKSONVILLE, = = = FLORIDA 



ADVERTISEMENTS 




^p^ FtORIDVS REPRESENTATIVES [[* WI1[IIIC[ WITNESS FOR LOADHOLT? 

^■*"- IN n[i np WASHiNOTov IS NO i(i[ is SFvpRFiuimupn. 




m THOS G. HUTCHINSON, President 

!W Fellow American Association of 

l]0 Public Accountants 

(m M. A McLAUREN, Sect'y-Treas. 

K^ Phone 312, Board of Trade Building. 



DAVID H DOIG, Vice-President 
General Counsel 

JOHN A. HANSBROUGH, >lgr. 
Tampa, Fla., Office 



l)utcbin$oit J\M\t €0. 

CAPITAL $25,000.00 

Public Hccountants and Jiuditors 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



We examine, audit, open, clo.se, write up and design books, and install simpler and 

accurate systems for corporations, partnerships, E.Kecutors'. Administrators', 

Trustees'. Bank, Cigfar Factories, Saw Mills, Naval Stores, Capitalists' 

and Promoters' accounts. 

COMPANIES INCORPORATED, ORGANIZED, CONSOLIDATED AND INITIAL 
PR33EEDlNJi CDO'JCTED. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



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THE 



CLYDE STEAMSHIP CO. 



BETWEEN 



JACKSONVILLE FLA., AND NEW YORK, 



Calling' at CHarleston, 



C. 



SPEED. COMFORT, SAFETY. 




TRAVEL BY 'CLYDE LINE. 



IHE FINEST COASTWISE VESSELS AFLOAT. 



Unsurpassed Passenger Accommodations. Tables Supplied 
with the Best in the Markets. 



F. M. IRONMONGER, Jr., Ass't Gea'l Pass. Agent. 122 West Bay St.. Jacksonville, Fla. 

W. G. COOPER. Jr . Krt. Agt.. C. P. LOVELL, Supt. 

Foot Hogan Street, Jacksonville Fla. 

A. C. HAGERTY, Gen'l East'n Pass. Agt.. CLYDE MILNE, (ien. Ft. Agt. 

New York New York. 

THEO. G. E(jER. Vice-Pres. and Gen'l xManager. 

Pier 36. N R., New York. 



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ADVERTISEMENTS. 



t MERCHANTS & MINERS J 
I TRANSPORTATION CO. } 

I Steamship Lines $ 

^ BETWEEN ^ 

^ SAVANNAH, GA. % 

^ BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA, ^ 
^ NORFOLK, VA., % 

f BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE, f 

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-^ Steamers New, Fast and Elegant. ^ 

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^ Accommodations and Cuisine Unsur- ^ 

^ passed. Best route to Travel and ^ 

T Ship your Freight between ^ 

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I NORTH and SOUTH. J 

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^ SEND FOR BOOKLET. i 

^ H. C. AVERY, Commercial Agent,. T 
^ JACKSONVILLE, FLA. ^ 

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"^ J. C. WHITNEY, 2nd V. P. &. T. M. ^ 

"^ W. p. TURNER, G. P. A. ^ 

■^ General Offices, Baltimore, Md. ^ 

^ "FINEST COASTWISE TRIPS IN THE WORLD. " T 

!i^ 4* 4* 4* 4k 4* 4* 4b 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*4* 4* 4*4* 4* 4* 444,4*44^14^1,^^1;,^ 



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ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Havana, Nassau, Port Tampa, 
Miami, Key West 




VIA 

TH[ PENINSULAR AND 

OCCIDENTAL 

STEAMSHIP CO. 

Delightful Winter Trips on Summer Seas 

From 

Port Tampa and Miami 

To 

Nassau, Key West and Havana. 

Frequent Sailings. Fast and Fine Steamships. 

FOR PARTICULARS. RATES, PASSENGER OR FREIGHT, 

APPLY TO 

CHAS. L. MYERS. P. J. SAUNDERS, 

Manager, Traffic Agent, 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 91 



Independent Line Steamers 

ST. JOHNS RIVER DIVISION. 

Steamer leaves foot Laura street daily, Sunday excepted, at 2:30 P. M. 

======^ FOR ==^==^=^== 



Mandarin, Orange Park, Hibernia, 
Magnolia, Green Cove Springs 

and Way Landings. 

TAMPA DIVISION. 

steamers leave Fuller's Wharf 7:30 A. M. and 3:30 P. M. 

=^^^=====^^ FOR ===^=^=^z= 



St. Petersburg and all points on Hanatee 
River and Terra Ceia Bay. 

H, D. DeQROVE, W. R FULLER, 

Supt. St Johns River Division. Qen'l Frt. and Passenger Agt. Tanipa Divis'on. 

C. E. GARNER. President and Oen'l Mgr. 
GENERAL OFFICES, JACKSONVILLE. FLA. 



Wilson & Toomer Fertilizer Company | 



JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



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Factory. TALLEYRAND AVE. Office, VIADUCT. . 

Dealers in Agricultural Chemicals and IVIanufacturers of the Famous • 



IDEAL FERTILIZERS 

ALWAYS RELIABLE 



Write to us for circulars, prices and discounts. ^ 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



McMURRAY (Si BAKER, 

'WK^lesale and R.etail 

VEHICLES AND HARNESS, CARRIAGE AND WAGON MATERIAL, 
Bay and Liberty Sts. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



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Office and Salesroom of ricMurray & Baker 
McMURR.W & BAKER— This compan). with factory and salesrooms at the corner of Liberty 
Bay streets, are Manutaciurers' Agents and Jobbers in Carriage and Wagon Material. 




T. MURPHY, 

JACKSONVILLE MACHINE <St IRON WORKS, 

610 TO 617 EAST BAY ST., JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 

Steamboat, Saw Mill and Rail Road repairs; Iron and 
Brass Foundry, Machine and Pattern Shops. Special facili= 
ties for prompt repair work. { 





McMillan brothers, 

SOUTHERN COPPER WORKS, 

MANUFACTURERS OF TURPENTINE STILLS AND GENERAL METAL WORKS. 

Office and Works: 743 East. Bay Street,. 
PCSTOFFICE BOX 525 WORKS AT 

.— ^~ Savannah, Ga. Fayetteville, N. C. 

"=■ Mobile, Ala. Jacksonville, Fla. 

Jacksonville, Florida. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



93 








EVERETT HOTEL 



EUROPEAN PLAN 

GEO. H. MASON, Manager. 



Its central location makes it* especially 
adapted to the requirements of business 
men. j^ j^ j0' j^ j^ j^ 




235 WesL Bay St,. J ACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



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ABYERTISEMEi^ T8. 



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Tlorida Dank and 
Crust Company 



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Capital $ 1 ,000,000.00 Deposits $2,000,000.00 

Jacksonville, Florida 

State, County ana City Depository 



C. E. GARNER, C B. ROGERS, ARTHUR F. PERRY, 

Presidenl Vice-President Vice-Presid 



W. ALBERT REDDING, FRANCIS P. FLEMING, JR., 

Secretary and Cashier Trust Officer 




CDorougblv equipped Crust Department 



I COMMERCIAL BANKING, SAVINGS DEPARTMENT | 






GENERAL BANKING, SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES 



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ADVERTISEMENTS. 95 

ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY 



THE H. & W. B. DREW 

...COMPANY... 

STATIONERY, PRINTING 



LITHOGRAPHING 


STEEL 


DIE STAMPING 


STEEL 


AND COPPER 


PLATE 


ENGRAVING 



MAKERS OF — ^=r^ 

^ FINE CUSTOM BLANK BOOKS J 

Our Product in This Line Cannot "=5^ 

Be Excelled. 



COMPLETE OFFICE EQUIPMENTS 



TYPEWRITERS, 


DESKS 


FILING CABINETS 


BOOKCASES, Etc 


, ETC. 



LOOSE LEAF SYSTEMS 

FOR EVER\' BUSINESS 



The H. & W. B. Drew Company 

45-47-49 WEST BAY STREET 
116-124 WEST FORSYTH STREET 

II JACKSONVILLE :: :: :: :: FLORIDA 



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